displaying Directory contents with AIR/Flash CS3 component

[Boombanguk]

Hi,

I've tried using this

// List the contents of the user's home directory
var dir:File = File.userDirectory;
dir.listDirectoryAsync();
				
// Listen for the appropriate event to handle when the listing is complete
dir.addEventListener( FileListEvent.DIRECTORY_LISTING, 
                      handleDirectoryListing );

			
private function handleDirectoryListing( event:FileListEvent ):void
{
    // Display a header
    trace( "Name\tSize\tDir?\tCreated On" );
				
    // Loop over all of the files and subdirectories, and display 
    // some relevant information about each item in the console window
    for each ( var item:File in event.files )
    {
        trace( item.name + "\t" 
             + item.size + "\t" 
             + item.isDirectory + "\t" 
             + item.creationDate );
    }
}

with the Flash AIR component, but it gives me this compile error

"1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: FileListEvent."

thanks for any help.

[TdotBen]

Boombanguk,
I know you are using Flash CS3 with AIR, but I have this posting I created based on your example. Granted it uses Flex but I would think the syntax would be the same...

http://tdotblog.info/?q=node/7

A couple of things I noticed. The asynchronous method is actually "getDirectoryListingAsync." In addition you may want to make sure you have all the necessary classes imported.

I know the initial beta of AIR had a decent number of bugs in it so that may have caused problems as well...